Tract in refutation of the claim of the Jews that the Messiah had not yet come.
Description:
Composed after 1700 (cf. leaf 138 recto, middle, where it is stated that "it has now elapsed more than 1700 years" since the coming of Jesus., Fair modern (18th century) naskhī, in red and black., Islamic binding, in black., No. 3 of 5 titles bound together., and Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.
Date assigned by C. Landberg ("X. Jahrh.")., Good fairly modern (16th century?) Yemenite naskhī, in red and black; copious genealogical tables., Islamic binding, in red, with flap., and Original foliation: [13bis] not counted; 46 omitted.
Subject (Name):
ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661 and Muḥammad, Prophet, -632
Subject (Topic):
Biography--Biography of Muḥammad, Biography--General biography, Biography--Prophet's companions, and Islamic binding
Leaves 117-118, containing a supplementary prayer by a later hand, dated A.H. 1282 (A.D. 1865). and Prayers for the Prophet.
Alternative Title:
Dalāʾil al-khayrāt
Description:
Good naskhī, in red and black; ʻunwāns in colors., Loose in Islamic binding, in red, with flap., Marginalia., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., and With drawings, in color, of the holy places in Medina on leaves 25 verso and 26 recto.
Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379.
Published / Created:
1755
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 349
Image Count:
45
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Abstract:
Copied in A.D. 1755., Followed by 2 leaves of notes., Followed by: ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl al-Anṭākī's introduction to his translation of the Psalms (leaf 11 recto); 24 ethical maxims, ascribed to St. Gregory of Nyssa (leaf 14 verso); and other pieces., and Questions and answers, ascribed to St. Basil and St. Gregory of Nyssa.
Description:
Fair naskhī, in red and black., For al-Anṭākī's version of the Psalms, cf. Graf, I, 116., For the ethical maxims, cf. Graf, I, 344, 608 (where, however, reference is made to Berlin catalog, 10181 (16), which is a different text)., and No. 5 of 5 titles bound together.
Subject (Name):
Anṭākī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl, 11th cent. and Gregory, of Nyssa, Saint, approximately 335-approximately 394.
Commentary on al-Risālah (epistle) of Ibn Zaydūn. and Copied according to the colophon in A.H. 960 (A.D. 1553).
Alternative Title:
Sarḥ al-ʻuyūn fī sharḥ Risālat Ibn Zaydūn.
Description:
From the library of Silvestre de Sacy (Catalogue, no. 191). Presented to Yale by Edward Elbridge Salisbury in 1870., Good naskhī, in red and black. First and last (colophon) leaves supplied by a later hand., The proper title of the work is: Sarḥ al-ʻuyūn fī sharḥ Risālat Ibn Zaydūn., and With autograph note by Rifāʻah Bak al-Ṭahṭāwī.
Subject (Name):
Ibn Zaydūn, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1003 or 4-1071. Risālah al-Zaydūnīyah, Ibn Zaydūn, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh,--1003 or 4-1071.--Risālah al-Zaydūnīyah, Silvestre de Sacy, A. I.--(Antoine Isaac),--1758-1838--Presentation inscription from R. al-Ṭaḥtāwī, and Ṭahṭāwī, Rifāʻah Rāfiʻ,--1801-1873--Presentation inscription to A. I. Silvestre de Sacy
Beginning and end missing. and Manual of Shafiʻi law. Volume VIII (?) only.
Description:
Fair old (14th century?) naskhī., For the author see Brockelmann, I, 387; S I, p. 669. On the Taʻlīqah, cf. also al-Subkī, Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʻīyah, III, 155 ff; Ibn Khallikān (ed. Cairo), I, 145., Islamic binding, in brown, loose, the back cover supplied from a smaller book., and The identification of the work is uncertain. Title, as written on the lower edges, is partly rubbed off and indistinct.
